President Obama’s State of the Union CyberSecurity Text, Audio and Video
President Obama stated:
America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.
That’s why, earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. Now, Congress must act as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks.
Audio File: SotU CyberSecurity
Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order to strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure by increasing information sharing and by jointly developing and implementing a framework of cybersecurity practices with our industry partners.
- Defense Industrial Base Information Sharing Program Now Open to Other Sectors: The Order expands the voluntary Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program, enabling near real time sharing of cyber threat information to assist participating critical infrastructure companies in their cyber protection efforts.
- NIST to Lead Development of Cybersecurity Framework: NIST will work collaboratively with critical infrastructure stakeholders to develop the framework relying on existing international standards, practices, and procedures that have proven to be effective.
Partnering with Industry to Protect Our Most Critical Assets from Cyber Attack
- New information sharing programs to provide both classified and unclassified threat and attack information to U.S. companies. The Executive Order requires Federal agencies to produce unclassified reports of threats to U.S. companies and requires the reports to be shared in a timely manner. The Order also expands the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program, enabling near real time sharing of cyber threat information to assist participating critical infrastructure companies in their cyber protection efforts.
- The development of a Cybersecurity Framework. The Executive Order directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to lead the development of a framework of cybersecurity practices to reduce cyber risks to critical infrastructure. NIST will work collaboratively with industry to develop the framework, relying on existing international standards, practices, and procedures that have proven to be effective. To enable technical innovation, the Cybersecurity Framework will provide guidance that is technology neutral and that enables critical infrastructure sectors to benefit from a competitive market for products and services.
An Interview with Mark Russinovich
This week on Washington DC based “The SecurityOrb Show” a discussion with Mark Russinovich occurred. The discussion centered around his role at Microsoft as a Technical Fellow as well as some of the work he did before Microsoft with his companies Winternals and Systernals.
We also talked about his educational background, current projects and views on the new coding methodology.
Mark also discussed his motivation for writing his first two fiction-based books, “Zero Day” and “Trojan Horse” and also stated his third book “Rogue Code” will coming out in spring 2013.
For more information on Mark and how to contact him, check out: http://www.russinovich.com
You can also check out his Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russinovich
In addition to the interview with Dr. Russinovich, a discussion on a recent examiner.com article about how a Chinese hackers are attacking American-based media companies such as Twitter, the NY Times, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal.
On this show, we talk about how Chinese hacker are attacking US media companies, we also did an interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovish, Author of Zero Day and Trojan Horse.
You can also follow previous shows at:
The SecurityOrb Show #003 – Feb. 6 2013
On this show, we talk about how Chinese hacker are attacking US media companies, we also did an interview with Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovish, Author of Zero Day and Trojan Horse.
Media Companies are Under Attack by Chinese Hackers
On Friday, February 1, Twitter has reported and confirmed that is has become the latest victim of sophisticated cyber attacks against media companies in recent weeks. Other companies include The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal. All fingers point to Chinese hackers penetrating their computer systems.
Read More at Examiner.com
The SecurityOrb Show #002 Jan. 30, 2013
On today’s show, a discussion on the Pentagon adding 4000 cyber-security personnel to the cyber command division of the DoD. Also we took a look into Olly Connelly’s book “WordPress 3 Ultimate Security” published by Packt Publishing
